BioEUParks park presentation from Duna-Ipoly national park, hungary

1. Duna-Ipoly National Park
Directorate
Pál Kézdy

2. Overview
Duna-Ipoly
National Park
Directorate
National Park Directorates
of Hungary

3. Protected area
National level

4. European / international legislation
Name No. of sites Area
(ha)
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands 5 6 000
Man and the Biosphere
World Network of Biosphere
Reserves
1 25 000
European Diploma of Protected Areas 1 1 200
Natura 2000 sites
Birds Directive
(Special Protection
Area – SPA)
10 148 000
Habitats directive
Site of Community
Importance – SCI) 58 220 000
Protected area

5. A variety of ecosystems
from the steppes ...
Ecosystems
Alkaline steppe
Pannonic sand steppe
Pannonic inland sand dune thicket

6. 6/27
… to the mountain forests
Ecosystems

7. Protected species

8. Protected species

9. Main tasks
Habitat management and
reconstruction
Species protection
programmes
Environmental education and
ecotourism
Monitoring and research
Land property management
(ca. 13 000 hectares)
Guarding of areas (40 rangers)
EU-projects

10. Sas-hill Nature Reserve